<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Just checking with the Kine Japan collective to see if anyone here would be able to confirm the original title of a c.1978 Japanese live action children's film, sometimes titled in English LITTLE ADVENTURES. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I have the following English information about the feature, but not a studio. I also cannot find any reference to the film in English language dbs (although imdb can be a thicket) or the Japanese sources I can access, such as JFDB. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I think it's possibly this: <a href="https://www.nikkatsu.com/movie/25621.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nikkatsu.com/movie/25621.html</a>. But the literal translation of the title is so different, and director Okamoto's career seems largely as an assistant on pinko eiga, not per the synopsis.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Synopsis: A story of a group of school children on a bicycle trip from Tokyo to the Sea of Japan and their adventure en route.</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><p class="ydp98283dfbMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-AU">" Director: Mr. Koji Okamoto</span></p><p class="ydp98283dfbMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-AU">" Leading Actress: Miss Emi Kushida</span></p><p class="ydp98283dfbMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-AU">" Leading Actor: Mr. Hidekauzu Takei</span></p><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-AU">" Supporting… Miss Midori Takei… Mr Makota Okamoto</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-AU"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span lang="EN-AU">Thanks in advance.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span lang="EN-AU"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span lang="EN-AU">Quentin Turnour, National Archives of Australia.</span></div></div></span></div></div></body></html>